The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-06-29
SAN FRANCISCO TO ENGLAND.

OHe lOHS dCCuSlOIucu W tHc
quiet life that is to be found on an
island plantation, the transforma-
ton to one of the busy marts of
the world engenders strange
feeling, such indeed was my expe-
rience, from the time of my landing
in San Francisco on beautiful
morning, the goth April, to my de-
parture on the afternoon of the 2lst,
the sight ON landing was quite an
animated one, the many friends of
some of the Australia's passengers
hurrying forward to look out for the
expected ones, the rapid unloading
of the baggage from the vessels
hold, the claiming of it, its eXami-
nation by the Customs officers and
the varied phases of disembarka-
ton were gone through in rapid
succession and / was soon rapidly
driven off to my hotel, the Brooklyn,
where 1 had stayed at thirteen years
before, on a former visit to San
Francisco; after arranging for
rooms, etc., and partaking of
good lunch i sailed out to see what
l could in the short time at my dis
posal; my impressions of San Fran
cisco thirteen years ago are rather
indistinct at this time but they were
sufficiently strong in my mind to
enable me to judge what great
changes had occurred in the in
terval, it has extended its bounda-
ries in every possible direction, its
buildings have improved in won
derful way and can compare in size
and architecture with those of any
of its rivals in the new or the old
world; the stores are very fine and
attractive in finish, and show of
goods in the windows, and alto
gether it is a wonderful city with
very many attractive features to
visitor. Leaving San Francisco at
O'Clock on the 2lst, by the Rail
way Co.'s Oakland boat we were
rapidly carried over to the Railway
depot on the other side, Zone fea-
ture of this part of the journey
being the large number of water
fowl of many species to be seen in
the bay), and at $3.50 P. NJ. pre-
cisely, we left Oakland on our long
eastward journey, during the after
noon of this day we passed through
a beautiful country, highly culti-
waited and in every way charming to
the eye, the district being the Sac
ramento Valley, we were passing
through this until darkness hid all
outside objects from view. Our
train was long and crowded one,
all seats appeared to be taken, 1
noticed one great improvement in
the second class cars, and this in
having arrangements for the sleep
ing accommodation of the occu-
pants, there being upper and lower
berths similarly arranged to the Pull
man cars, only the sleepers must
supply their own mattresses, pill
lows and blankets, but is a great
improvement on the old system in
which Pullman's were the only
sleeping cars and it is boon which
the travelling public no doubt highly
appreciate; my own berths were in
Pullman car and l cannot speak
too highly of these specimens of
travelling luxuriousness, both by day
and night the comfort is the best
possible i was fortunate enough to
secure places in one of recent con-
struction, with high backs, making
the seats much more comfortable.
Such comforts make travelling a
luxury.
On awakening on the morning Of
the 22nd, we were passing down the
eastern side of the Sierra Nevada,
having Travelled up to and passed
the summit during the night, we
were now amongst the snow, notice
we had of this during the night by
the lowered temperature but the
cold was not intense, the view on
either side was very pretty, the
woods, hills and dales with rivulets
of running water and snow clad
hills and trees having a pretty and